Families

now with many more details from BMDs and all censuses except
1861(new - Feb 06) plus some information on wills,
apprenticeships & removal orders

Also see the News page (begun
Mar 2007) with information on the latest updates, changes, etc
This notice will also appear on each family page as updates are made but will
eventually be replaced by the link at the top of the page

Please read the following notes first
if new to this page

People included
Names in blue are those that appear in the account
book. Also included are other people born or living in the village. Some of
these are families of longstanding, others may only have been 'passing through',
many as servants. All names including servants are now included on these
'family' pages with as much cross-referencing as possible where relevant

Relationships
Many family relationships to other local families have been recorded here
- with links to relevant family and one-name websites - but more information
and more links are always welcome.

Working children
Living with the families are numbers of servants in their early teens. Children
have been found working as young as nine years old. Many children were sent
to relatives at these ages to gain experience, but they did not necessarily
remain servants for the rest of their lives - so names of servants are worth
investigating. Also "Visitors" are more often than not relatives
too even though the Census does not always expressly say so.

Quite a number of Devon people settled later
in the century in South Wales

Addresses
It is important to notice, looking at the place of birth of the children,
how many times all these families moved around, even - or even especially
- the 'ag.labs' who could be 'taken on' every year for a day less than a year
so that the parish could avoid responsibility for them. (Also 'ag labs' varied
enormously, some becoming farmers after only a few years.) The accuracy of
material from the Census cannot be guaranteed as people sometimes did not
know or simply guessed how old they were, or someone else guessed and their
birthplace could be equally uncertain! Moreover the place of birth was often
given as the nearest 'postal' address, especially if people had moved to another
part of the country - this could account for Tiverton being given as place
of birth on those occasions when it should have been Templeton. The same applies
even more to other villages nearer to Tiverton.

Spellings
There are often enormous variations in spelling, but even small ones, like
the modern 'Loxbeare' where the 1881 census has 'Loxbear' can lead to failure
when looking for ancestors. Try every known variant of all names and places
- and a few more - before giving up! Modern spellings are used in these notes
so that places can be more easily located on maps. The spelling of 'combe'
or 'coombe' (with or without a capital C) is uncertain. 'Coombe' seems to
apply only to certain places in Templeton, now as in the censuses, but George
Jackson consistently used 'combe'. Other examples - A mysterious village called
'Lummon' has not yet been identified. One large Beedell family was entered
in 1851 as 'Berdell'. Is 'Crooke' the same name as 'Crook'? Or 'Cornwall'
always different from 'Cornwell'? These are included under separate headings
but linked in case they are merely variants on the same name.

Sources - Census
Details have now been added from the censuses of 1841, 1891 and 1901 in addition
to those from 1851 and 1881. Other censuses may be used where correspondents
have kindly sent information. More details are often available, especially
from the 1851 and 1881 censuses for people not personally connected with Templeton.
Dates of birth are obtained by subtraction from the ages given in the census
and may be about 9 months out. All persons whose status is not mentioned are
single.

Sources - Directories
Various directories are mentioned. Kelly's for example was first published
1866 but there were other like Pigot's which were first published much earlier.
The directories used were the ones available but there must have been many
more as they were usually published annually. They were inevitably about a
year out of date so someone could still appear even though deceased! Not all
'repeats' have been noted from the directories and some references must have
been missed.

Sources - Dates
Anyone recorded as paying rent in the account book would of course have been
there for the previous half-year but the date is always given as the one on
which rent was paid. So those people who were listed from May 1846 would have
lived there from the previous November. Another important point is that according
to White's directory of 1850 only two farmers in Templeton actually owned
their own farms and it is unlikely this situation changed over the period
of the account book. Birth dates giving only the year but no more precise
date usually mean this is obtained from the census and could be a year out.

People of Templeton and their families are listed under the family
name. Families
where one of them appears in the account book - and some information
is therefore unique - are shown in bold. Many
of the heads of households also appear on various tables under Farms
and Cottages 'Other
names' include related families, servants etc, some not included elsewhere,
many new ones (November 2005) Several
names have variants and they are included in the same section. Click
on the linked names below for details known. Use 'Edit/Find' as well,
as many appear under other family headings.Look
for 'other names' on the relevant page(s) with . Many names are referred
to more than once. Go
to Personal Links for other websites
(also indicated in these notes if connected with Templeton)

It should especially be noted that those
who lived in properties shown in the account book would still be paying
rent to the Chichester family of Calverleighafter 1864 when the book ended. (See farms
and cottages) The successor to George Jackson
as land steward is not known. There could be later records to be found in
record offices in Exeter or in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the
Chichester family archives

/BEO2/5 1791-1821 Certificate of admission of Charles Hobbs,
clerk, as domestic chaplain to the Hon. John Poulett, 15 Jan. 1791; deed
of Thomas Hobbs, clerk, relating to the purchase of the advowson of Shapwick,
23-24 Oct. 1801; certificate of admission of Thomas Hobbs, clerk to the
rectory and parish church of Cossington, 28 Oct. 1801; and certificate of
admission of Thomas Hobbs to the rectory and parish church of Templeton,
Devon, 23 Mar. 1821. (4 docs)